Talking-machine case



C. J. MALMBERG.

TALKING MACHINE CASE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 6. 1919 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1- 'IIIIILIII...

0. J. MALMBERG TALKING MACHINE CASE. APPLICATION F| LED DEC. 6. 19i9. I 1 351,778 Patentedsept. 7,1920.

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TALKING-MACHINE, case.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs- J; MAnM- BERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at the'city of Jamestown, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Talking-Machine.Cases, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The invention relates to cases or cabinets for sound reproducing or talking machines; and the object of the improvement is, first, to provide a cabinet of a simple and taking design, having its upper portion in the form of a fixed structure for the rear portion and the front portions hinged to said rear portion to turn sidewise in opposite directions,

forming as it were double doors to close said front portion; second, to provide inclined shelves in said doors'or hinged front portions to receive the sound record disks therein ready for immediate use; third, to provide on said fixed rear portion a lamp standard 'to form a combined floor. lamp and talking'machine, the talking machine case forming the lower portion of said floor lamp; and the invention consists in thenovel features and combinations hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the combined talking machine cabinet and lamp standard, showing the construction and arrangement of the same in the closed position. Fig. 2 isa perspective view of the upper portion of the case with the doors in the open position showing the. shelves for the sound records in said doors.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the talking maposition and the other door closed the open position being shown in dotted outline. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one corner of the upper portion of the case, the corner structure being broken away to show the inclined sound record shelves therein and the manner in which they are united to the case, a portion' of the adjoining door being shown with the oppositely inclined shelves therein. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of said shelving in the door from the-corner outward showing the records in section in the intervening leaves between the shelves.

Like characters of reference refer to cor-- responding parts in the several views.

'ords 18. A hinging .metry of design.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 7, Application filed December a, 1919. Serial No. 1342,8891

The numeral 10 designates the-body of the talking machine case-which is arranged in about the usual form for the'l'ower portion, having a resonating horn with the I screened opening 11 therefor, and apermanently attached or integral rear portion 12 of the cover. I

The front portion, preferably about one half, of said cover 12'is formed by the two,

doors 13 and 14 which .arerhinged to said rear portion 12 as at 15. The doors 13 and sound records 18 therein, a series of sepa-. rating leaves 19 being preferably provided] between each of the shelves1-7 for said reccorner s'lidably holds said leaves 19 against slipping out from said shelves 17, andtheir slidable mounting on pin 20 permits separation' thereof. The leaves 19 may be made of thinpaper board having a surface-that will not injure the surface of the sound records'l8.

A lamp standard 21 is provided, preferably in the :center of the top cover portion, and is fixedly attached to the rear portion 12. Should the'division between said rear portion 12 and the 'doors 13 and 14 be exactly across the center of the said cover, the

pin 20 near the'rearstandard 21 may extend outover the inner corners of the doors 13 and 14 when in the closed position in order to give perfect sym- This gives suflicient amount of base to the lamp standard21 for l a strong attachment to the rear portion 12.

It is apparent that with the lamp 21 lighted, the records borne by the doors-13 and 14 aswell as the partsof the talking machine mechanism which must be manipulated to change a record, are brought directly beneath the light rays -from the source of light, which greatly increases theconvenience of playing the machine.- Also that the opening of the two doors 13 and 14 gives full access to said talking machine mechanism for exchange of records, and it is also evident that the records 18 which it is desired to play for an evenings entertainment may be selected and placed in the shelves 17 between the leaves 19, or the latest records may be kept in said shelves while other records may be kept in the record cabinet 22 in the lower portion of-the case 10, which record cabinet 22 is preferably made with shelves in much the same manner as in the doors l3 and 14c.

A rectangular shaped case and standard are shown in the drawings. 'Other designs may be arranged to include the general features of my invention. I

I claim as new:

1. In a talking machine case, a record carrier open on two sides and closed on its two remaining sides, a vertical pin in the corner of the two closed sides, and separating leaves for the records slidably mounted on said pin and engaged with the two closed sides of the carrier so as to hold the leaves against movement except as to sliding vertically on the pin.

2. In a talking machine case, a body having a top, a. stationarypart at the rear of the body extending upwardly from the top thereof to form a part of a cover for the top, said cover part being cutaway on its front so as to leave the entire front half of the top of the body exposed and having parts which extend around the rear half of the body top and a top part in spaced relation thereto, movable cover parts which conjointly when closed cover the front half of the body top, and means to hinged-1y mount said movable cover parts so that same may be swung free of the front half of the body top so that light coming from above the stationary part will strike the front half of the body top.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES JVMALMBERG.

\Vitnesses:

C. V. SWANsoN,

H. P. ANDERSON. I 

